Biamomyrma lata, Dlussky & Rasnitsyn & Perfilieva, 2015

Dlussky, G. M., Rasnitsyn, A. P. & Perfilieva, K. S., 2015, The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Bol’shaya Svetlovodnaya (Late Eocene of Sikhote-Alin, Russian Far East), Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11 (1), pp. 131-152 : 144

publication ID

51753

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6105433

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B04695E-FFF8-664E-FC10-FED9FB2EFCE9

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Donat

scientific name

Biamomyrma lata
status

sp. n.

Biamomyrma lata sp. n.

( Fig. 28)

Material. Holotype PIN 3429/1149 (print and counterprint), gyne.

Description. Gyne. Body length ca.6 mm. Head nearly as long as wide, with weakly convex sides, rounded occipital corners, and weakly concave occipital margin. Anterior margin of clypeus with rounded lobe. Eyes comparatively small, oval, situated backward midlength of head. Scape short, nearly half as long as head.Funiculus with distinctive 3-segmented clava; basal funicular segments wider than long. Mesosoma very broad. Scutum transverse, 0.7times as long as wide. Scutellum a little wider than long. Propodeum without teeth or spines. Postpetiole very large. Gaster oval. Occipital corners, sides of pronotum and petiole with coarse cellular sculpture, head, most part of mesosoma and postpetiole very coarsely longitudinally and reticulately rugose . 1st gastric segment sharply longitudinally striated.

Measurements of holotype, mm: AL 2; HL 1.4; HW 1.4; SL0.76; SctL0.9; SctW1.3; SctlL0.5; SctlW0.6; PptH1.

Comparison. Differs from other species in very broad mesosoma and transverse scutum.

Etymology. Lata is the Latin for broad.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hymenoptera

Family

Formicidae

Genus

Biamomyrma

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